Comments on: I Am So Popular

By: Samut

Samut — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:23:43 +0000

This is something we’ve discussed over at our CoV blog as well (http://infamyunlimited.wordpress.com/2006/01/10/blind-invites/). Experiences varied, but sending a tell seems to be the agreed-upon ‘polite’ way to suss out interest in teaming.

By: Karnatos

Karnatos — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:05:05 +0000

I tend to respond in kind – if I am busy and I get a blind invite, I feel I am allowed to decline without reason… and I usually do.

What really gets my knickers in a knot is when then re-invite not 10 seconds after I’ve declined. That really chaps my ass.

So – in those cases… what do I do? I usually join their team for a brief moment and ask them what the hell their problem is. I often shoot comments regarding ADD and the likes for kicks and giggles, and just because I am lazy by nature I’ve macroed my favorites.

Hey, you might repeatedly blind invite me to your very own team some day… only then may you get to see one or more of my great one liners! So come on all you blind-invite fools out there, blind invite me to your team today!

RE: People are broken – sooo soo very true, Ethic.

By: Ethic

Ethic — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:09:08 +0000

This goes on the same line as my old post about blind guild invites:

http://www.killtenrats.com/?p=422

It’s been said before but it’s so very true: People are broken. I will never, ever, accept a blind team invite.

By: Hyd

Hyd — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:20:08 +0000

Even more so than WoW, it seemed that CoH brings the absolute rawest MMORPG newbies out of the woodwork. I’m not God’s Gift to Online Gaming, but when I was playing CoH I saw a fairly large number of people who either had no sense of strategy, tactics, or ettiquette, or didn’t give a tinker’s damn about it. Blind invites, reckless charges across a roomful of mobs, bail on the party when things got tough, all that good stuff. Good thing loot didn’t drop, or you’d probably get ninja looted too.

By: Stormwaltz

Stormwaltz — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:13:39 +0000

I put in a comment in my search box saying, “I don’t do pick-up groups, so please don’t ask.” When I’m getting spammed anyway, I just /hide.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:47:57 +0000

Since I also like to play healers, I’ve made the same perceptions as you. I accept that often groups are almost complete and ready to go adventuring but are missing a healer, and therefore they are asking people even if they are not “LFG” (in WoW there is no “LFG” feature anyway…). My policy is that I respond in the same way as the request was made. If someone sends me a whisper which I consider somehow polite, I try to decline in a polite way. If someone just whispers “UBRS?” I just reply “n”. Blind group invites get declined without comment.

I recently started playing a healer in EQ2, and whats very disturbing there compared to my experience in WoW is that I receive /tells with group inquiries very rarely, but I receive blind invites very often. Some people repeat these invites until I put them on ignore. What are these people thinking? Do they think that healers are always-available henchmen like in Guild Wars? Fortunately I eventually discovered that you can turn on a setting “auto-decline group invites”.

By: VanHemlock

VanHemlock — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:10:56 +0000

It is a bit bizzare; somewhat like wandering past an operating theatre in a hospital and have a hand reach out the door and yank you inside, then be expected to do surgery, without a exchanging a word with the other surgeon.

My guess is that lot of it is frustraited soloers, who see other players (esp Healers) as a kind of NPC wingman resource to help with the tricky bits. Frankly though, if they don’t even want to say hello, or better yet, explain what they are trying to get done, bad things can only come of the resulting group. I’m not expecting a life-history mind you, but some kind of Plan of Attack is always helpful.

To answer the question though; respond in kind, a blind refusal for a blind invite. :)